Siobhan Soraghan

About the author

Siobhan Soraghan BSc MBA MCIPD MCMI MPracNLP, Founder and MD of Active Insight has been
developing senior executives, high-potential individuals and top teams since 1991. She coaches
corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, top echelon public servants, community leaders, and senior
military personnel. Her coachees currently include chief Executives, a range of directors, a
permanent secretary, an Anglican bishop, a range of military leaders, and senior civil servants
either at, or aspiring to, DG level. Over the years she has supported a wide range of
organisations to align their business and people strategies, and designed and delivered
impactful senior leadership development programmes. In addition to executive coaching and
leadership development, she coaches top teams to improve their collective decision-making
capability and develop their corporate leadership skills.

Siobhan offers a rare combination of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ capabilities: a
sharp intellectual grasp of strategic thinking tools and processes, alongside an incisive
perception of inter/intra-personal dynamics and emotional intelligence. Added to which, her
experience across a broad range of organisations equips her to quickly appreciate the contexts
within which her clients operate.

She began her career with BP, and was soon promoted from R&D (patent granted) into business
development. She worked in high-risk oilfield environments, and gained valuable experience in
business rebranding and in organisational growth through acquisition.

Siobhan has an MBA from Cranfield, one of Europe’s top business schools. She focused on
strategy, change management and people development, gaining a distinction in managing strategic
change. She also is an NLP master practitioner, is licensed to administer Myers Briggs, and is
trained in non-violent communication, along with many other valuable transformational
tools.

Siobhan’s experience includes having been a trustee of the Chartered Management Institute,
where as a board member, she supported the formulation of strategy and made a significant
contribution to the development of the Institute’s governance practices. She has delivered
career coaching and career development workshops for Cranfield’s MBAs over many years, and
has coached long term for the National School of Government’s flagship Top Management
Programme and on senior military leadership programmes at the Shrivenham Defence Academy. She
was also a member of the OU Business School team that devised their Managing Knowledge
programme.

Siobhan is a member of The Insitute of Directors, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development, Association of MBAs, Association for Coaches,
Association of Career Professionals and British Association for Psychological Type.